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06:57 pm
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Lunacy!
<a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/lunatics/"><img src="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/images/lunatics/v.jpg" title="I'm Charles the Mad. Sclooop." alt="I'm Charles the Mad. Sclooop." border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/lunatics/">Which Historical Lunatic Are You?</a><br /><small><a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/">From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.</a></small>
Current Mood:  silly
Tags: meme
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10:53 am
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New people aren't the only ones afraid to post on JHP
I was originally going to post this to a certain thread, but my comment was too long even after I started abbreviating, and I realize that I can't very well mention spelling and grammar while using abbrevs.
( Response to JHP thread )
( Manifesto on reading writing and commenting )
Current Mood:  frustrated
Tags: jhp
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11:31 pm
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Books! (meme)
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
5) My mac still doesn't like lj cuts, so your friends page may be filled with my pretentiousness. Sorry!
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien HATED it.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling Who hasn't?
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Didn't like it
6. The Bible ...I've read...a lot of the Old Testament. Does that count?
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman. Since when is this a classic?
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare. No, but I've read Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and a Midsummer Night's dream, and I've acted parts of Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and others.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks. Never even heard of it. Is it really a classic?
18. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger. Eww. Never never never.
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger. Is this a classic?
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot Yes yes yes. I love Dorothea.
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald I didn't like it, except for that one paragraph at the beginning where Nick describes himself as the quintessential narrator/observer. I really related to it at the time.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens. I really don't like Dickens, so I don't want to read it.
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (all seven books!!) I've read the first one. It was good, but not as good as people say. I may read the others someday.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
28. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame I think so, when I was a kid.
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy I could go on for a long time about how good this book is, so I won't.
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis. I read the whole thing when I was too young to get that it was a religious allegory. I loved it then. I probably wouldn't like it so much now.
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis Um...you do realize this is part of 33. the chronicles of Narnia? For people concerned about literacy, the list-makers aren't so literate :P
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini That's a classic?
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres What's that?
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Is this on the list because it was turned into a movie?
40. Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne I liked it when I was a kid...
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown This is not a classic, wtf? Who made this list?
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving. What's that? Never heard of it.
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins. I've heard of Wilkie Collins, but not The Woman in White.
46. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding. I didn't like this book.
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan. I think this is on the list because it was made into a movie.
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert. The movies were great. I couldn't get into the book so much.
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon. What's this? Never heard of it.
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Read it in school, hated it. Definitely the worst of times.
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon. Not a bad book, (I like the autistic kid's perspective), but it's not a classic by a long shot. My estimation of this list is going down the toilet.
60. Love In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov. I don't want to read this.
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt. Never heard of it. What is it?
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold. Are. You. Serious?
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac I want to understand the Beats. I think I'd like them.
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding Okay, this is a funny book and probably the best chick lit out there, but seriously? Does it belong on a list of books that people must read? I don't think so.
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie. Oh? Not the Satanic Verses? I suppose that'd be too controversial.
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens My mom read part of it to me as a kid and I kind of want to finish it. I might actually understand it now. :P
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Read it as a kid. Probably wouldn't like it as much now.
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson. Bill Bryson is not a classic, kthxbye.
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome. Isn't this a children's book from the 1950s?
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt. I don't think I've heard of this one...
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell. Haven't heard of this one.
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry. Haven't heard of this one, either.
87. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White OMG, I cried for like a day when Charlotte died.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom. Not bad, really sweet, but definitely not a classic.
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton. Never heard of it.
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Yes--the whole thing in English and most of it in French.
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks. Never heard of it.
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams I read it when I was like 10...it was a lot of fun, but I wouldn't call it a classic.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole. Don't think I've heard of this one.
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute. Never heard of it.
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare. This goes under the Complete Works of William Shakespeare :P I liked it, but I like Macbeth better.
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Road Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I've read 28. Not bad, given that I'm only 18.
Current Mood:  accomplished
Current Music: Still-Foo Fighters
Tags: meme
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07:09 pm
[Link] | Here's an article from the Onion that I think some of my Beatles friends will enjoy, now under LJ cut to protect the innocent..
Current Mood:  amused
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05:43 pm
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A Dangerous Game
Title: “A Dangerous Game” (From the Very Secret Diary of John Winston Lennon “O’Boogie”)
Author: Me
Pairing: Multiple (J/P, J/G)
Rating: PG. Warning: Jerky!John is out in force.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Beatles. This is a work of fiction.
Description: John reflects on his relationship with Paul and George and the way he plays them off against each other. Kudos to 749_penny_lane for giving me the idea!
Author’s Note: You can see the June 11 press conference at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXzTYExSLU.
Current Mood: accomplished
Tags: fic
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08:44 pm
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Yes.
While reading the article about painting on johnheartpaul, I found a section of the interview that I can really relate to:
Paul: So I got this kind of very informal education which is how I like my education. I have never been good with the formalities -- in music or anything.
KW: There's no defensiveness in this comment?
Paul: Only in my mind, because -- yeah, it is just a sort of snobby thing -- because there are people who know more than I do. And I suppose the rationale is that therefore they ought to be better than I am. So I'm being defensive, and when I do an interview, particularly like this one that's not my main field, I want to own up first that if you're looking for exact names or titles... it's not a defence, more a disclaimer. I don't want people to be reading this thinking, bloody hell! That's completely wrong, he doesn't know. I like the primitive approach, so if I learn to sail I don't take sailing lessons. I get into a boat and I capsize a lot.
Heck yes. Formalizing what you learn and turning it into an assignment book or a practice book with three assignments to complete by next week just takes all the fun out of it. Learning is fun, whether it's learning to write an essay or learning how to play violin. And that serious approach, where you set goals like "I will practice x hours a week" or "I will earn an A on this test" or "I will improve y amount..." My music teachers have always guilt-tripped me into thinking that's the way to learn and I'll never improve if I don't. And then they wonder why over 90% of their students left them after the first year or two. That defensive thing? It's because most people don't get the "learning is fun, and you don't need a teacher to learn" mentality. I honestly don't expect that most people on, say, johnheartpaul will get it either when they read this, because it sounds...grandiose perhaps ("I'm so smart I can learn without a teacher") or spoiled ("I'm supposed to have fun all the time and never ever have to work!"), but the thing is, music is food for the soul, and how can you automatize that feeling you get when you hear, let alone play, [insert your favorite Beatles song here]?
I love you, Paul, for having the courage to tell the world all this, though you probably know they won't get it. I'm so glad you haven't let them stop you from doing everything "primitively."
Current Mood:  excited
Tags: comparing myself to paul
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05:58 pm
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First time writing a George story, and I have some questions
I had an idea for a story to put on the drabble challenge, but I'm not sure if the timing is accurate, and if it's not, then the dynamic is all wrong and I can't use it.
Basically, it's inspired by this incident when George is talking to someone (I forget who) about this algae that just appeared in his pool and how miraculous it is that first there was nothing and then all of a sudden there was life.
(I can't remember what book this was from or when this incident supposedly happened, and would love to know).
I know George was embarrassed to talk about God before he started getting heavily into LSD, but what about other, more general spiritual things like the appearance of the algae? When did he get forcefed LSD at that doctor's party? When did he start taking LSD regularly? When did he start having conversations about spiritual things, to the best of the biographers' knowledge? Where does the recording of I Want To Tell You fit into this timeline?
All of this seems very random and to have nothing to do with firsts, but there is method to my madness.
Oh--and by the way--if this works out, I might just get a chance to describe George's amazing smile (y'know, the one from the Let It Be picture). Yay.
Current Mood:  curious
Tags: fic
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10:50 am
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The Sociology of "Slash lite"
Recently, several people over at johnpaulslash were discussing some common conflicting attitudes about slash. The prevalence of slash in fic communities that I mentioned earlier reflects a fairly wide acceptance of the idea that certain Beatles, especially John and Paul, were in love. But a number of people within slash communities have voiced some discomfort with explicit sex in stories, preferring what I call "slash lite." Basically, it's okay for two Beatles to have feelings for each other, but one must assume that they were too conflicted to ever act on it in any way, especially, gasp, having sex. Not surprisingly, a number of people found these conflicting attitudes perplexing. Time for some completely unfounded, unresearched speculation!
But before we launch into this discussion, I'd like to take a moment to define this term I've been throwing around everywhere, "slash lite." Okay. So why is slash lite widely accepted, but regular slash not?
I've often seen homophobia cited as an explanation, but I think, at least among people who identify themselves as slashers, the attidues are more complicated and interesting. I'm sure there are more explanations I've overlooked, but hopefully this'll provide a good starting point for discussion. Any slash-lite afficianados (sp) or puzzled fanosaurs want to weigh in?
Current Mood:  contemplative
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10:56 pm
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fandom on lj
749_penny_lane just informed me that there are now far more slash than non-Slash Beatles communities on LJ, which appears to be correct. And most of the non-slash ones weren't active--the only active one I know of is beatle_review. Is anyone else surprised? What explains this massive shift in population/activity from het to slash?
Has slash become mainstream in Beatles fandom?
(I've got to stop putting up so many posts everywhere. No one will be able to keep up with them all! XD)
Current Mood:  surprised
Tags: fandom
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07:13 pm
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The Beatles as Shamans?
I've clipped a fascinating section from The Gospel According to the Beatles and posted it here. Interesting way to explain the Beatles' role as countercultural prophets!
(The italics given here are mine).
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Current Music: rain
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01:25 pm
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Carry That Weight Part 2
Well, I'm sure you're all tired of hearing me complain about my story-in-progress's lack of...well, progress, but at long last, here it is.
Much thanks to my lovely beta readers, abromeds, jkg_vader, jerom2003, adviljunkie, and paul's left hand, and to everyone at johnheartpaul. The wonderful discussions there continually inspire me. Now on to the fic. Carry That Weight Part One: http://www.minds-opaque.livejournal.com/10325.html#cutid1
Carry That Weight Part Two: It's Only Me
Author: Me
Rating: PG
Characters: John, Paul, Cynthia, Julian
Description: What do you do when your best friend and soulmate tells you he just beat his wife?
Current Music: Help album
Tags: fic
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04:36 pm
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Carry That Weight Part 1
My fic-in-progress is finally finished.
Much thanks to my wonderful betas, abromeds, jkg_vader, jerom2003, adviljunkie, and Pauls_left_hand and to everyone at johnheartpaul. Our discussions there really inspired me!
Title: Carry That Weight Part 1: Rage and Silence
Author: Me
Rating: PG, maybe PG-13 for creepy psychology. No sex.
Characters: John, Paul, Cynthia, Julian
Description: What do you do when your best friend and soulmate tells you he just beat his wife?
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these people. That's good for them, bad for me. I doubt they'll sue, but if they do, they should know I have no money.
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Help album
Tags: fic
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03:32 pm
[Link] | My mom and I had an interesting exchange recently. We were in the car listening to Eleanor Rigby.
"That song is so overrated," I said. "I get the point already. Lonely people, yeah yeah yeah."
"Are you trying out to be a Rutle?" she said.
"No, I want to be a paperback Rutle!"
Anyone doing anything to celebrate John and Paul's historic meeting this Friday? I'll be writing fanfic.
Current Mood:  cheerful
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08:57 am
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What are you listening to right now?
Here's a fun little quiz that's going around Beatles Fanfic Land (I got it from 749_Penny_Lane).
The Instructions
1. List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good...but they must be songs you're really enjoying now.
2. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs.
3. Tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.
I'm tagging:
abromeds, harihead, gloigloi, geminigirl58, chester_bnngton, orangeismyday ...and anyone else who reads this. My Current Ear Candy: I'm not really sure what the numbering system should be, so I'm listing these in no particular order. In fact, I'm ignoring the instructions and just posting what I'm listening to, by album, regardless of number. Traveling Wilburys-Album 1: Handle With Care. I'm still trying to figure out the words to Tweeter and the Monkey Man. ^^ Album 3: You Took My Breath Away, Wilbury Twist. Cool Dry Place is fun, too. Cloud 9-I love the entire album! This is my favorite George album.
Brainwashed-Right now, I especially like Marwa Blues (which helped me get over a headache once), and of course, Brainwashed itself. Cream of Clapton-Bell Bottom Blues, then Layla and Sunshine of Your Love.
Help-why list any particular songs here, I love just about every song on the album!
Rubber Soul-Drive My Car, Girl, In My Life, Think For Yourself (listed in the order I thought of them, not in order of preference)
There are also several songs I'm obsessed with that I haven't listened to for a while (several on Abbey Road, for example), but they probably don't count. I also go through spasms of listening to Sergeant Pepper, Ringo's Blast From the Past and Paul's Hits and Histories album. I do listen to non-Beatles music, but nothing lately enough to count.
Current Mood:  tired
Tags: quiz
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09:45 pm
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How many Beatles songs can a judge quote in his verdict?
From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=459804&in_page_id=1811
Judge cites 42 Beatles songs to teach beer thief a lessonLast updated at 15:47pm on 4th June 2007 A judge sentencing a Beatles-loving beer thief quoted 42 of the band's song titles in his verdict. Andrew McCormack, 20, was asked to recommend to a US court what his sentence should be for stealing beer. McCormack: Got more than he bargained for after his beer theft He wrote: "Like the Beetles say, Let It Be". But his cheeky quip did not impress Gregory Todd, a 56-year-old district court judge in Montana. In a sentencing memorandum Judge Todd first corrected McCormack's misspelling and then gave the defendant a lesson in The Beatles discography. He replied: "Mr McCormack, you pled guilty to the charge of Burglary. To aid me in sentencing I review the pre-sentence investigation report. "I read with interest the section containing Defendant's statement. To the question of `Give your recommendation as to what you think the Court should do in this case', you said, `Like the Beetles say Let It Be'. "While I will not explore the epistemological or ontological overtones of your response, or even the syntactic of symbolic keys of your allusion, I will say Hey Jude, Do You Want to Know a Secret? "The greatest band in rock history spelled their name B-e-a-t-l-e-s. "I interpret the meaning of your response to suggest that there should be no consequences for your actions and I should Let it Be so you can live in Strawberry Fields Forever. "Such reasoning is Here, There and Everywhere. It does not require a Magical Mystery Tour of interpretation to know The Word means leave it alone. "I trust we can all Come Together on that meaning. "If I were to overlook your actions and Let It Be, I would ignore that Day in the Life on April 21, 2006. "Evidently, earlier that night you said to yourself I Feel Fine while drinking beer. "Later, whether you wanted Money or were just trying to Act Naturally you became the Fool on the Hill on North 27th Street. "As Mr Moonlight at 1.30am, you did not Think for Yourself but just focused on I, Me, Mine. "Because you didn't ask for Help, Wait for Something else or listen to your conscience saying Honey Don't, the victim later that day was Fixing a Hole in the glass door you broke." Judge Todd went on: "After you stole the 18 pack of Old Milwaukee you decided it was time to Run For Your Life and Carry That Weight. "But when the witness said Baby it's You, the police responded I'll Get You and you had to admit that You Really Got a Hold on Me. "You were not able to Get Back home because of the Chains they put on you. "Although you hoped the police would say I Don't Want to Spoil the Party and We Can Work it Out, you were in Misery when they said you were a Bad Boy. "When the police took you to jail, you experienced Something New as they said Hello Goodbye and you became a Nowhere Man. "Later when you thought about what you did you may have said I'll Cry Instead. Now you're saying Let it Be instead of I'm a Loser. "As a result of your Hard Day's Night you are looking at a Ticket to Ride that Long and Winding Road to Deer Lodge. "Hopefully you can say both now and When I'm 64 that I Should Have Known Better." In McCormack's sentencing he received probation, a community service order and a fine.
Thanks, 749_penny_lane, for sending this to me! Current Mood: lol
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06:33 pm
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Yayz, I love pointless quizzes!
This one comes courtesy of orangeismyday. (The Beatle-related questions I made up in an earlier entry are WAY better, though!)
Anyone who reads this will learn a lot of useless trivia about me! Yay! XD
Okay, now I'll make up some questions:
Current Mood:  bored
Current Music: Fleetwood Mac-Rumours
Tags: quiz
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08:16 pm
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The Beatles and Kirlian Photography Don't Mix
A strange memory has been popping into my head a lot lately, and since it concerns a Beatles song, I'm sharing it here.
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Help!
Tags: life
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08:17 pm
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She said, she said...
...No, I don't know what it is to be dead. Sorry to disappoint y'all. XD
Current Mood:  blah
Tags: john, life, paul, ringo
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07:56 pm
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Help! (Being a glimpse into my grotty mind)
Being a Beatles fan is supposed to be fun.
Except in my universe.
I found myself in a deep blue funk today because I was convinced that I had lost my touch and that everything I posted now was stupid and bored everyone, including myself. There was a post I made on johnheartpaul, a quote about John playing the harmonica in jail, that you've probably all forgotten about. Well, realizing that I hadn't thought it through before posting sent me into a tailspin of embarrassment, and I somehow managed to universalize this into "all my posts are stupid and badly thought through." Yes, on Planet Minds_Opaque, I must be smart, articulate, fascinating, and fun every time I open my mouth. And because I want to keep certain communities (johnheartpaul, beatlerant, beatles couch) going strong, I feel obligated to open my mouth all the time.
Beatles Couch is especially stressful because, as one of the mods, I feel responsible for it. I have to come up with topics that are interesting, worthy of discussion, and most important, fun for everyone. And that don't overlap with some other community's turf, because I don't want to kill other communities. Of course, my mind goes utterly blank. Wouldn't yours? Really, I should take a break for a while and let Chester post. She knows what she's doing better than I do, anyway.
And I really have to stop showing my story in progress to my mom no matter how she begs (yes, it turns out she's a Beatles fic fanatic and a slasher), because whenever she points out the flaws in my characterization, I feel depressed. Apparently if I don't get John and Paul perfectly right on my first draft, before I have any idea what they should be doing, I'm writing worthless crap. Yep, I'm such a perfectionist that if it's not at the level of abromeds, poor frances, jkg_vader and forsomeone, it's a worthless piece of crap that should be burned.
I take this fandom, and the opinions of the wonderful people whom I've met through it, way too seriously.
See, this is why I identify with Paul. XD Except that he manages to create stuff despite his perfectionism and bouts of self-hatred, while they shut me right down. A few months ago, I googled "Beatles creative process" to see how he did it. Of course, I never found out his secret. I don't think he even knows what it is, since he still seems convinced that if he knew how his creativity worked, it'd disappear.
Like my story-in-progress, this entry has no obvious ending. It just rambles. So I will arbitrarily end it here. XD
Current Mood:  depressed
Tags: comparing self to paul, self analysis, self-deprecation
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08:43 am
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Story update, free toasters, and narcissistic John
Hi, and sorry I've been largely absent from lj lately. I've been catching up on some work. (As paul's left hand said, johnheartpaul withdrawal is not fun.)
My story is doing a lot better--John and Paul have finally figured out what they want to do. There's a couple of scenes yet to write, but I'm hoping that won't take too long. One of my friends (not a Beatles fan, amazingly enough) suggested that I continue the story past this particular day and over the next few years. I haven't decided if I want to do that yet. Anyone have any thoughts?
Oh, and by the way--I now think there was probably some sexual aspect to J/P. The "scissors incident" definitely helped bring me around. So everyone on johnheartpaul gets a free toaster. ;-)
One more random thought: When I was talking to my mom yesterday, she pointed out that when John said Hey Jude was about him, he was effectively taking the song away from his son. Which is kind of creepy. It's sad enough that John never wrote a song for his own kid, but when someone else does, why can't John just let it be about the kid? I know I'll probably get flamed for saying this, but John was such a narcissist.
Current Mood:  busy
Current Music: Revolver
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